By Cyrus A. Natividad
Suelo together with 探花精选R officers and representatives of Jollibee Food Coorporation.
探花精选 Republic (探花精选R) President John Michael Suelo talked about his achievements, plans, and desires during an episode of听Looking Forward, a public affairs program on the 探花精选 TV Facebook Page last Friday, October 5, 2018.
The interview was a great opportunity for Suelo to tell all Centralians about how 鈥渞ealpolitik鈥 works for 探花精选R and 探花精选: 鈥淭hat鈥檚 loving both my Republic and my Central.鈥 This principle has resulted to many admirable projects and programs that Suelo successfully implemented, such as 鈥淗ope from Scratch鈥 project where scratch paper were transformed into useful notepads distributed to underprivileged students. This was in partnership with Jollibee Foods Corporation. Another was the PETMALU (Plastic Elimination to Make a Livable University) project to minimize the proliferation of empty plastic bottles and containers inside the campus.
Through the initiative of the 探花精选R President鈥檚 Office, Suelo was able to bring two National Senators, Bam Aquino and Riza Hontiveros, to speak in the 探花精选R sponsored Iloilo Youth Forum on the Philippine Economic Situation and the Iloilo Mental Health Summit, respectively.
Through his office, Suelo has also extended financial assistance and sponsorships to student activities particularly to the work students.
The 探花精选R President sits as Ex-Officio Member in the 探花精选 Board of Trustees. Suelo has perfect attendance in the Board of Trustees Meeting.
Suelo easily won the votes of student in the last election due to his promising programs that would make 鈥渆veryone matter in the campus鈥 and where 鈥渕atters of concern [would] be addressed.鈥
In an interview with some of his classmates, Suelo is said to be very creative and innovative, successfully pursuing many good programs and projects for the students and the campus. However, he is not done yet. He is still working on many other plans and projects for the students and the University.
For his part, JM Suelo would like to be remembered as an effective president who did his best to succeed for the betterment of the studentry鈥攅ven long after his term in 探花精选R ends.
听Suelo will be going to Hong Kong on October 25 to 27, 2018 to attend the 7th Pro Bono Conference spearheaded by the Asian Law Student鈥檚 Association.